Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
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Author: Orson Scott CardBrand: Books
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02-18
ISBN: 0765342294
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Starscape
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Summary: 5 Stars
In the 22nd century, Ender lives in a modern Earth where there is a new Warsaw Pact between the countries in Europe, where each child receives a miniature computer that records all of their life experiences, and where law forbids adults to have more than two children. However, Ender also lives in world that has been invaded by alien creatures known to many only as the "Buggers", which are insect-like humanoids that are controlled by one central queen. If it wasn't for the bravery and skills of Commander Mazer Rackham, mankind would have been destroyed. That was several decades ago. After several years, Ender is about to have his monitor taken off. At this point of his life, Ender is barely 7 years old. At the local school, Ender is teased and taunted by many of the schoolchildren for being a third child. When Ender comes home, he has to play an exhausting game of Astronauts and Buggers with his seemingly menacing and evil brother, Peter. However, a knock at the door grabs Ender's attention as a man simply named Graff tells Ender and his family that Ender has been selected to be a trainee at the battle school that orbits Earth, where young children are trained to soon become military commanders. As two invasions by the Buggers have taken place, the third one seems close to many, and Earth needs all of the defenders that it can get. When Ender climbs into a space shuttle, he finds it to full of young boys. However, one of them begins to pick on Ender after Graff makes a nice comment about him. Ender reacts by breaking the boy's arm (unintentionally). When Ender arrives at the battle school, he finds himself in a group of beginners. However, Ender is placed in a more advanced sqaud. At this school, Ender practices military combat using a device that freezes the opponent with a lazer. Also, Ender receives a game on his personal computer. In one chapter of the game, Ender comes upon a giant. The giant sets out two glasses of liquid, one of which is pure, while the other glass contains a poison that always causes Ender to die. Frustrated with this, Ender moves his character up to the giant and begins to take the giant's eyes out using his hands as shovels. This is when Ender begins to realize: is a he a born killer? On Earth, Ender's brother, Peter, and his sister, Valentine, learn a terrible truth that Russia and other neighboring countries have brought together a new Warsaw Pact, and plan to begin another nucleur war with America and the rest of NATO. For the first time in their lives, Peter and Valentine team up together as brother and sister to reveal the dreadful secret. Back at the battle school, Ender begins to climb the ladder to greatness, and eventually becomes commander of the newly formed Dragon Army. After several months of overwhelming training, Ender experiences first-hand what it is like to command an army. Although Ender's sqaud has defeated every army he has ever battled with, he begins to suffer. He begins to wonder if this is the life for him. One day, however, Ender is approached by Graff, who announces to Ender that he will be moved to a new school. When Ender arrives, he finds himself on the asteroid Eros. In his new room, he finds an old man who instructs Ender to battle. Unfortuanetly, Ender loses in an instant, only to realize that his new instructor is Mazer Rackham, the man who destroyed the Bugger invasion. He says to Ender that the humans will be the third invasion on the Buggers this time. And unknown to him, Ender will be the commander. As his training goes by, Ender is introduced to a game simulating an important battle. As the final simulations get closer, each level becomes much more harder. When the final simulation ends, Ender has destroyed the capital Bugger planet, only to find that the simulation was in fact, real. As this battle ends, a short skirmish occurs on Earth, but subsides. Several years later, Ender boards a craft that will take him to one the Bugger worlds. While it will take only several months to cross space for Ender, for Earth it will be over a period of five decades due to light-speed. When Ender arrives on one of the Bugger worlds, he writes The Speaker of Dead, based on his experiences on the new planet and with the Buggers. Ender's Game is an excellent novel by Orson Scott Card because of its detail, its suspense, and because of its great work of science-fiction.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, is an extraordinary novel to be read because of its superb detail. The novel, written in 1985, received the Hugo and Nebula Award for writing. This is an obvious reason that Ender's Game is a top choice among many readers for science-fiction. In the novel, the author is able to describe every battle down to the simplest part, which gives the reader an advantage. Also, the novel contains vocabulary that can be understood well by most middle and high school students.
Ender's Game also consists of a great deal of suspense that will cause the reader not only to be thrilled to the utmost extent, but it will also cause the person to keep reading on until their question is answered:What happens next? Such as an event includes when Ender is in the simulation of the battle between the human forces and the Buggers. Another is when Ender begins his journey into the battle school, where Graff and other experts are providing Ender with traps, personal hardships, physical conflicts, and other obstacles. In both of these, the possibility of Ender dying is high. These and other events will cause the reader to invest more of his or her time into reading more.
Orson Scott Card is an amazing science-fiction writer, and his book, Ender's Game, has won two awards and is also a New York Times Bestseller. While piecing together this piece of work, Card imagined a new Earth that would be much different than today. Although there is no second Warsaw Pact as in the novel, it describes a more similar Earth as well. Card's imagination included large and massive star-ships that took years to reach their destination, and large stations that orbited Earth. Orson Scott Card also created the Buggers, an insect species so different yet so similar to our own species.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, is an excellent novel becasue of its large amount of detail, its thrilling suspense, and also because it was an extraordinary piece of work. The story was about a young boy who is taken from a young age and is trained to be a military commander to help ave mankind once and for all. I rate this book a total of five stars out of five.
A. Chappell
Summary of Ender's Game
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut?young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut?young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
Ender's Game is the winner of the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman
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